The City of Firsts, being a complete history of the City of Philadelphia from its founding, in 1682, to the present time / written by George Morgan, fifty years in Philadelphia journalism (eight on The Times, forty-odd on The Record) ; author of "Battlefield Letters," "John Littlejohn of J" (Valley Forge) ; "The Issue" (ante-bellum and Civil War period) ; "The True Patrick Henry," "The True Lafayette" and the "Life of James Monroe," Fifth President of the United States.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, George, 1854-1936.

Contributor:

Historical Publication Society (Philadelphia, Pa.), issuing body.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

619, [1] pages illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 35 cm

Other Title:

Complete History of the City of Philadelphia

History of Philadelphia Complete in One Volume

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Published by The Historical Publication Society, 1926.

Contents:

Book I. Period Prior to Penn. 1. Brickadelphia-Red Bricks and Red Men; 2. The Dutch on the Delaware; 3. The Swedish Settlements; 4. Printz and Stuyvesant; 5. Enter the English

Book II. The Penns, the Friends and the Holy Experiment. 6. The Man in Leather Breeches; 7. The Penns; 8. The Overseas Quakers; 9. Penn as Courtier and Politician; 10. Penn's Holy Experiment

Book III. The Penn Period. 11. First Ships and First Settlers; 12. How the City Took Shape; 13. Penn's First Visit; 14. Penn's Second Visit; 15. Great Growth

Book IV. The Franklin Period. 16. Colonial Tempest in a Teapot; 17. Foundation Time; 18. Time of Trouble; 19. Philadelphia in Revolutionary Days; 20. Philadelphia in Revolutionary Days and Thereafter

Book V. The Girard Period. 21. A City of Great Repute; 22. The Capital City; 23. Fast Ships and Fighting Frigates; 24. When Girard was a Power; 25. To The Consolidation

Book VI. To and Through the Centennial Period. 26. The Consolidation; 27. Philadelphia in Wartime; 28. The Centennial; 29. Fifty Years of Philadelphia-The Newspapers; 30. The Newspapers-Continued.

Book VII. Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century. 31. How Inventions Have Helped; 32. Old Time Business Men; 33. The Merchants of Recent Times; 34. The World's Workshop; 35. The Port of Philadelphia

Book VIII. A City of the Practical Sciences. 36. The Learned Societies; 37. The Franklin Institute and Our Workers; 38. Baldwin and the Sellerses; 39. The Story of Medicine; 40. Nearly a Hundred Hospitals; 41. Famous Medical Schools

Book IX. Latter-Day Philadelphia. 42. The Philadelphia Bench and Bar; 43. Philadelphia Authors; 44. The Birthplace of American Art; 45. The Philadelphia Stage; 46. Music in Philadelphia

Book X. Libraries, Churches, Schools. 47. Libraries and Societies; 48. The Story of the Churches; 49. The Story of the Public Schools; 50. The University of Pennsylvania; 51. Friends' Schools; Parochial Schools; Temple University

Book XI. History of Public Men and Affairs. 52. City Politics; 53. Municipal Administration; 54. Great Development of United States Government Business and Property

Book XII. Twentieth-Century Philadelphia. 55. The Metropolitan Transformation; 56. A Contrast of Old and New; 57. Philadelphia Architecture; 58. The Suburbs of Philadelphia; 59. Public Utilities; P. R. T.; U. G. I.; Phila. Electric; 60. The Philadelphia and Camden Bridge; 61. Twentieth Century Industrial and Port Development.

Notes:

Bound in stamped in blind on pebbled leather cloth boards. Title block is in gold above illustration of ship.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Athneaeum copy: Gift of Grace Farmer; author's personal copy with name engraved on cover.

Athneaeum copy has date on t.p. altered in ms. to read: 1928.

Athneaeum copy has advertisement laid in.

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

OCLC:

1304928